Improvement in safety-pockets



J. GOLT ON. Safety-Pocket.

Patented Now-4,1879.

INVENTOR WITNESSES N4 PETERS, PHQTOMTN OGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH OOLTON, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY-POCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,283, dated November 4, 1879; application filed April 7, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnPH CoLToN, of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented -a new and useful Improvement in Safety Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a front view of one of my improved safety pockets, shown as closed. Fig. 2 is a front perspective view of the same, shown as opened.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved pocket for carrying a watch and money, and which shall be so constructed that its contents may be safe from pickpochets, and which shall be provided with a convenient re ceptacle for a pocket-bandkerchief.

The invention consists in the combination of the parts, as hereinafter described.

A represents the pocket, which is provided with an inner lining of chain-work, and which is designed to be secured to the garments within an ordinary pocket, or as an independent pocket, as may be desired.

The rear part of the mouth of the pocket A projects above the forward part, and to. the

. said parts are secured the parts of the clasp B. The two parts of the clasp B are arched,

and the forward part is made the smaller, so as to close into the cavity of the rear part, bringing both parts into the same plane.

The clasp B is fastened by a sliding catch, 0, which is held down by a spring, and which may be locked by a cam-lever, D, pivoted to the rear part of the said clasp B in such aposition that its cam may be swung over a shoulder of the said spring-catch O. The springcatch C may be still further secured against cured a small pocket or fob, F, to receive a watch, which is thus shut up within the clasp B, and the chain of which may pass out between the parts of the said clasp B.

Upon the front of the pocket A is formed a pocket, G, to serve as a pocket or pouch for the reception of a pocket-handkerchief, gloves, or other small articles, and which is provided with an elastic cord, 9, at its mouth, to keep the said mouth closed and prevent anything put into the said pocket from workingits way out and being dropped and lost.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- I 1-. The combination of the spiral spring E with the clasp B, and with the cam-lever I), that fastens the spring-catch O of the said clasp B, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination of the pocket or pouch Gr, provided with an elastic cord, g, at its mouth, with the safety-pocket A B, substantially as herein shown and described.

JOSEPH OOLTON.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. PARDEE, WILLARD D. WARREN. 

